The following pictures come from Bernard Nietschmann's dissertation, Between
Land and Water: the subsistence ecology of the Miskito Indians,
Eastern Nicaragua. Diss University of Wisconsin, 1970.
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Family Picture at Home
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Turtle Farming on the Coast
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| Unloading turtles on the beach in the afternoon
in Tasbapauni. Men are dragging turtles harpooned on the banks. |
Miskitu family in 1910. The photograph
was possibly taken in Tasbapauni from the Moravian postcard series. |
Family Pictures
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Miskitu Hunter with Prized Shotgun
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Many of the Miskitu men were hunters and gathers. Since they
traded with the Creoles and British, many acquired guns and became the
dominant Indian group on the Eastern Coast with these new commodities.
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This shotgun has greatly increased the effectiveness
of hunting white lipped peccary. |
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Page created by Monica
Neil and Adam
Aderton. December 4, 2000
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